Comment on China starts up world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor

• viking@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not at all, but long term storage of exhausted nuclear rods still costs an unknown amount of money endless centuries into the future. So you can’t really put a number on the final bill.

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  • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some types of reactors can also use those waste products as fuel and in turn make them into other waste products that only last a couple hundred years, so it’s not a easy calculation to make unless you know what’s deployed in the future.

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  • TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eh we’ll just dump em into the Sun someday if we start running out of space here on earth.

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That has been suggested for decades, problem is that if any of the transporters blow up on their way to space, you essentially have a dirty bomb covering covering half the planet. No bueno.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was usually old-style (insecure) and expensive, covered with hidden funding, or new tech (somewhat secure) and even more expensive.

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